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Originally Posted by Terry
One of the points I used to emphasize on thebereans.net, if these brothers were SO ambitious as Witness claims and as LSM co-workers still claim, why would they remain for 25 years? If they were ambitious, don't you think they would have exercised ambition to take opver the work while still young men? As it was, after 25 years they were in their late 50's. Much more logical is they were more spiritually mature than their younger co-workers (now known as the blended brothers). Being more spiritually mature, they saw things in the light most brothers and sisters did not see.
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The whole "unfulfilled ambitions" explanation is just a red herring to distract those questioning away from probing into the real reasons these senior coworkers had legit concerns.
Personally I see nothing wrong with people being ambitious. Since when is that a crime? You have a goal and the determination and hard work to achieve it. What's wrong with that? Witness Lee could not build an international ministry without ambition.
So the first thing Witness Lee had to do was make being ambitious a bad thing. (Which he constantly did in his messages all the while being highly ambitious himself.) Once he could convince his audience of this he could henceforth dismissively use it as a one line stock "reason" why many of his closest senior coworkers weren't happy with some of the things going on in the late 1980s. In this manner he could keep covering up the real reasons.
However in this particular instance I'm surprised he and his LSM employees would use this stock answer instead of pulling another one off the shelf. Because as I wrote in a previous post the coworkers involved were already at the top. They were well respected elders and coworkers with stellar reputations throughout the LC system. If indeed they were motivated by ambition the only higher "position" they could hope to achieve was the one held by Witness Lee as the super-apostle over the work globally. Does anyone seriously believe any of these brothers were dumb enough to think that was a realistic goal? And if that was not the goal of their supposed "unfulfilled ambition" then what possibly could it have been? What were they ambitious to achieve for themselves in the LC system that they didn't already have?
May I state it plainly? This stock answer of Witness Lee & Co is otherwise known as:
lying. Bold-faced
lying to God's people to cover up the real legitimate reasons these coworkers were concerned.